I would say it's corporate welfare. Corporatations and their executives have the financial means to great influence the political machinery. Pumping contributions in individual campaigns and PACs pays off big time.

Good point joshCorporate commercial and industrial taxes are down. In Wisconsin the greater burden has been shifted to residential property owners. Just look at the tax revenue for Hudson as an example. If you trak valuations versus tax revenues back 15 years (and I have), you would be shocked given the growth (industrailly and commercially) in Hudson. All this free market talk is just hot air. Corporations have been receiving handouts and tax breaks for years. That means real property owners (residential) are left with the burden to pick up the cost of corporate welfare.If I am not a customer of a given corporation, yet I am a property owner, it seems that I am held hostage by political and corporate partisanship.

One, I am opposed to any type of welfare. Welfare for the "poor" of this country or welfare for the farmers or welfare for the corporations. It all ought end. But it isn't going to without a drastic change in leadership in this country...

Secondly, my point is still valid. Whether or not corporations are evading taxes does not really matter. In the end individuals still pay the taxes one way or another. Corporations are not going to cut into their profit to pay for taxes. They just raise the price of whatever they are peddling. (Trickle down, if you will... please read this George F. Will article...

http://tinyurl.com/lndrv )

And finally, property taxes are (mainly) for schools. Why should corporations pay for schools, conceding for sake of the argument that people should pay (regardless of if they have children of school age)?

"Secondly, my point is still valid. Whether or not corporations are evading taxes does not really matter. In the end individuals still pay the taxes one way or another. Corporations are not going to cut into their profit to pay for taxes. They just raise the price of whatever they are peddling."

WHAT? that makes NO sense...

#1- They'll increase the prices if they have to pay their LEGALLY OBLIGATED TAXES? Have you ever heard of this thing called COMPETITION? Thier competitors are charging the SAME price they are and NOT evading taxes (at least not anywhere near that extreme) and charging the VERY SAME PRICE for the product. They make less of a profit, but they're much more legit, and trust me their profits are still fine. If your greedy friends increase their prices to make more profit they will lose customers to their competitors.

#2- Your argument that the invidual will pickup the cost of the taxes was defeated in that last point, but supposing for a second that the prices would go up (which is false), the fact reamins that their CUSTOMERS would pay for the extra increase, not the entire American Population. Americans are FORCED to pay their taxes. They are not FORCED to purchase from your greedy profit hungry, tax-evading friends.